Episode 28
Tuesday, October 27
27 min · 7 videos · Fairview Temple Context, BYU-Idaho Speeches, Church News, Church History Matters, The Interpreter Foundation, Christian Homestead
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In this episode
Fairview Texas Temple walls rise as town leaders push for a shorter steeple
0:49Fairview Temple Context · 8 min
An argument that the "a tall steeple doesn't belong in a country town" objection to the Fairview, Texas temple has the history backwards — rural steeples are the pattern, not the exception.
BYU-Idaho devotional: Dan Barnes on worth, identity and the plan of salvation
5:58BYU-Idaho Speeches · 24 min
BYU-Idaho counselor and stake president Dan Barnes argues that the plan of salvation is the real measure of a person's worth, and walks through three relationships (with God, with yourself, with others) where that worth gets clarified or distorted.
BYU composer Stephen Jones on his ocean-inspired tune for "Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus"
9:11Church News · 4 min
The story behind the new tune for "Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus" in "Hymns for Home and Church," written by BYU composer Stephen M. Jones to match the text's ocean imagery.
Church News essay: "anytime, anywhere" in the new hymns, the Church's name and the temple garment
11:27Church News · 4 min
A Church News reporter's personal essay tying the phrase "anytime, anywhere" in three new hymns to two ways of taking Christ's name: using the Church's correct name and wearing the temple garment.
Church History Matters on the Salt Lake Temple's early years: a buried foundation, a stopgap Endowment House and Brigham Young's insistence on doing it right
13:59Church History Matters
In the second episode of a series on the Salt Lake Temple, hosts Scott and Casey review how Nauvoo-era temple ordinances and theology developed, using Wilford Woodruff's records and the books by Jennifer Mackley and by Scott Marianno and Reid Nielsen, then begin the story of the Saints' arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, including Brigham Young's temple-site announcement and the mass rebaptisms that August.
Interpreter Foundation: Mike Harris on murmuring as Nephi's warning in First Nephi
18:53The Interpreter Foundation · 38 min
Mike Harris argues that "murmuring" in 1 Nephi is not grumbling but resistance to revelation given through the Lord's appointed servants, and that Nephi put it at the center of his record on purpose.
Christian Homestead puts a number on "far exceeding" convert baptisms
22:10Christian Homestead · 32 min
Presiding Bishop W. Christopher Waddell's BYU-Hawaii devotional put a number on Elder Rasband's June claim that 2026 convert baptisms are "far exceeding" 2025: up to 20 percent higher, for a possible 450,000 to 500,000 this year.
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